Racial communities & identities

This section consists of resources by, for, and about the experiences, marginalization, and activism in different racial communities in the U.S. I chose to only use texts written by people of color to center their knowledge, especially considering the long history of white people co-opting POC knowledge and creating inaccurate histories of POC communities. It is divided by community: Arab America, Asian America, Black America, Indigenous America, Latinx America, Mixed Race America, and Muslim America. If you have any suggestions on resources to add, please email poconlineclassroom@gmail.com.

How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi. Penguin Books (July 28, 2009).

Food for Our Grandmothers: Writing by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists by Joanna Kadi (please note that the author identifies as male and now uses the name Joe, but used Joanna at the time of publication). South End Press (July 1, 1999).

Exile's return: The making of a Palestinian American by Fawaz Turki. Free Press, 1994.

Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American women in the United States by Evelyn Shakir. Praeger (1997)

The Black Radical Tradition, a massive pdf including more than 500 pages of writing by authors such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frances M. Beal, the Combahee River Collective, I Wor Kuen, and more (table of contents included). Learn more here.